New Issue of Spinal Column Magazine Features Patients Who are Dreaming Big After Stroke Rehabilitation

The fall 2016 issue of Shepherd Center's quarterly magazine is now available for download as a PDF file here. Subscribers to the print version will receive copies via postal mail in the coming days.

Strokes are unpredictable and can strike a person in the prime of his or her life. Fortunately, Shepherd Center is uniquely equipped to help patients recover and get back to a productive life through its comprehensive and integrated rehabilitation, use of cutting-edge technologies, activity-based therapies, education, peer-to-peer support, community re-entry programs and post-acute care. This edition's cover story features patients who have continued to follow their dreams after completing Shepherd Center's specialized rehabilitation program for stroke patients.

The features section includes these stories among inspiring patient profiles, event updates, honorariums and memorials.

Shepherd Center, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is a private, not-for-profit hospital specializing in medical treatment, research and rehabilitation for people with spinal cord injury, brain injury, multiple sclerosis, spine and chronic pain, and other neuromuscular conditions. Founded in 1975, Shepherd Center is ranked by U.S. News & World Report among the top 10 rehabilitation hospitals in the nation. In its more than four decades, Shepherd Center has grown from a six-bed rehabilitation unit to a world-renowned, 152-bed hospital that treats more than 935 inpatients, 541 day program patients and more than 7,300 outpatients each year.